Quoth Warren Block on Saturday, 30 October 2010: > On Sat, 30 Oct 2010, Warren Block wrote: > > >On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, Chip Camden wrote: > > > >>>% man csh | less +/rehash > >>> > >>> rehash Causes the internal hash table of the contents of the > >>>directo- > >>> ries in the path variable to be recomputed. This is > >>>needed if > >>> [...] > >>>Error executing formatting or display command. > >>>system command exited with status 36096 > >>>Error executing formatting or display command. > >>>system command exited with status 36096 > >>>No manual entry for csh > >>>% > >>> > >> > >>(meant to reply to list) > >> > >>I can confirm that the very latest 8.1-STABLE (csup and build this > >>morning) reproduces the problem. uname -a: > >> > >>FreeBSD libertas.local.camdensoftware.com 8.1-STABLE FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE > >>#85: Fri Oct 29 10:27:19 PDT 2010 > >>[email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LIBERTAS > >>amd64 > > > >This seems to be a problem with the csh man page. Other pages work fine, > >like 'man hosts | less +/named' or 'man devfs | less +/ruleset'. > > Actually, it appears to be a problem with long manual pages, including > csh, bash, or perlfunc.
Yes -- it also fails on 'man zshall | less +/alias', for instance. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | [email protected] | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com | http://chipsquips.com
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